CONNECTICUT
American Eel: 9″ minimum size, 25/angler, no closed season.
Atlantic Menhaden (Bunker): Minimum length: None, *Daily creel limit: 50 fish per angler or 5 gallons (whichever is the greater amount), Open Season: Open Year Round
Black Sea Bass: May 19 – December 31, 5-fish bag limit, 15-inch minimum.
For-Hire “Bonus” September 1 – December 31, 7-fish bag limit, 15-inch minimum.
Bluefish: No closed season or size limit; 3-fish bag limit private boat/shore-bound; 5-fish bag limit onboard for-hire boats.
Cod: 22″ minimum size, 10/angler, no closed season
NOTE: Anglers aboard federally permitted party or charter vessels may possess any number of Atlantic cod, consistent with federal rules.
Haddock: 18″ minimum size, no daily creel limit, no closed season
Hickory Shad & American Shad: No size limit, 6/angler (both species aggregate,) no closed season
***American Shad: all state waters closed except the Connecticut River
Pollock: 19″ minimum size, no daily creel limit, no closed season
Scup / Porgy: January 1 – December 31, 30 fish per angler, 9-inch minimum.For-Hire Bonus Season: September 1 – October 31, 50-fish bag limit, 9-inch minimum.
Striped Bass: No closed season, 1 fish, 28 – less than 35 inches.
Summer Flounder/Fluke: May 4 to September 30, inclusive, Minimum Size: 19 inches, 4-fish bag limit.
Tautog / Blackfish: April 1 – April 30 and July 1 – August 31, 2-fish bag limit. October 10 – November 28, inclusive, 3-fish bag limit. 16-inch minimum length.
Weakfish: 16″ minimum size, 1/angler, no closed season
White Perch: 7″ minimum size, 30/angler, no closed season
Winter Flounder: 12″ minimum size, 2/angler, April 1 – December 31
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DELAWARE
Black Sea Bass: 12-1/2 inches, open 5/15-12/31 (15 fish).
Bluefish: No minimum size, 3/angler private, 5/angler aboard for-hire trips. No closed season
Croaker: 8″ minimum size, no creel limit, no closed season
Porgy: 8″ minimum size, 50/angler, no closed season
Red Drum: 20-27″ slot size, 5/angler, no closed season
Scup (Porgy): 8″ minimum size, 50/angler, no closed season
Spanish Mackerel: 14″ minimum size, 10/angler, no closed season
Spotted Seatrout: 12″ minimum size, No creel limit, no closed season
Striped Bass: One fish, 28 to 35 inches, except in Delaware Bay, River and its tributaries from 7/1-8/31 during which time angler limit is one fish from 20 to 25 inches during ‘summer slot’ season. No harvest permitted from spawning grounds from 4/1-5/31.
Summer Flounder: 16-1/2″ minimum size, 4/angler, No Closed Season
Tautog: 16-inch minimum, 4 fish from 1/1-5/15 & 7/1-12/31
Weakfish: 13″ minimum size, 1/angler, no closed season
MARYLAND
Black Sea Bass: May 15-Dec.31 12.5 inches 15 fish
Bluefish: 8″ minimum size, 10/angler, no closed season
Croaker: 9″ minimum size, limit 25/angler, no closed season
Flounder: Four fish at 16-1/2 inches per person/day.
Herring: Moritorium
Red Drum: 18″ – 27″ slot limit, 1/angler, no closed season
Spanish Mackerel: 14″ minimum size, 15/angler, no closed season
Striped Bass: The Maryland DNR has set the 2020 spring striped bass season to ban the catch and release season on the Susquehanna Flats. The Trophy Season will begin on May 1 with a one-fish bag limit and a 35-inch size limit. New coastal regulations TBD as of March 1, 2020.
Tautog: January 1–May 15, 4 fish/person/day; July 1–October 31, 2 fish/person/day; and November 1–December 31, 4 fish/person/day.
Weakfish: 13″ minimum size, 1/angler, no closed season
White Perch: No minimum size, no creel limit, no closed season
Yellow Perch: 9″ minimum size, 10 per day per person, no closed season
MASSACHUSETTS
American Shad: Merrimack & Connecticut Rivers: January 1 – December 31, no minimum length, 3-fish bag limit.All Other Waters: Catch and release only, YEAR-ROUND.
Black Sea Bass: May 18 – September 8, 5-fish bag limit, 15-inch minimum.
Bluefish:No closed season or size limit; 3-fish bag limit private boat/shore-bound; 5-fish bag limit onboard for-hire boats.
Cod: NORTH OF CAPE COD – Private Angler: September 15 – 30, 1-fish bag limit, 21-inch minimum length.
SOUTH OF CAPE COD – Private Angler: no closed season, 10-fish bag limit, 21-inch minimum length.
Haddock: NORTH OF CAPE COD – April 15 – April 30, May 1 – February 29, 15-fish fish, 17-inch minimum.
SOUTH OF CAPE COD – no closed season, no bag limit, 18-inch minimum.
Halibut: 41″ minimum size, 1/angler, no closed season
Pollock: No minimum size, no creel limit, no closed season
Scup / Porgy: Private vessel/shore: January 1 – December 31, 30-fish bag limit, 9-inch minimum, 150 fish/vessel limit with 5 or more anglers.
For-Hire Bonus: May 1 – June 30, 50-fish bag limit, 9-inch minimum.Smelt: No minimum size, 50/angler, June 16 – March 14
Striped Bass: No closed season, 1 fish, 28 – less than 35 inches. Circle hooks required when using bait except when attached to a lure such as a tube & worm rig or when fishing onboard for-hire boats.
Summer Flounder/Fluke: May 23 – October 9, 17-inch minimum, 5-fish bag limit.
Tautog / Blackfish: April 1 – May 31, 3-fish bag limit; June 1 – July 31, 1-fish bag limit; August 1 – October 14, 3-fish bag limit; October 15 – December 31, 5-fish bag limit; 16-inch minimum length.
Maximum per vessel possession limit is 10 fish regardless of number of anglers onboard.
Weakfish: 16″ minimum size, 1/angler, no closed season
White Perch: 8″ minimum size, 25/angler, no closed season
Winter Flounder: NORTH OF CAPE COD – no closed season, 8 fish, 12-inch minimum.
SOUTH & EAST OF CAPE COD – no closed season, 2 fish, 12-inch minimum.
Yellowtail Flounder: 13″ minimum size, no creel limit, no closed season
NEW JERSEY
Black Drum: 16″ minimum size, 3/angler, no closed season
Black Sea Bass: 12-1/2” minimum open 5/15-6/22 (10 fish); 12-1/2” minimum open 7/1-8/31 (2 fish); 12-1/2” minimum open 10/8-10/31 (10 fish); 13″ minimum open 11/1-12/31 (15 fish)
Blue Crab: 3″ minimum size for peeler/shedder 3-1/2″ for for soft shell 4-1/2″ hard shell Limit one bushell
Bluefish: No minimum size, 3/angler private, 5/angler aboard for-hire trips. No closed season
Cobia: 40″ minimum size, 1/angler, no more than 3 per vessel. June 1 to September 30.
Cod & Haddock: 21″ minimum size, no creel limit, no closed season
NOTE: Anglers aboard federally permitted party or charter vessels may possess any number of Atlantic cod, consistent with federal rules.
King Mackerel: 23″ minimum size, 3/angler, no closed season
Pollock: 19″ minimum size, no creel limit, no closed season
Porgy: 9″minimum size, 50/angler, no closed season
Red Drum: 18″-27″ slot size, 1/angler, no closed season
Spanish Mackerel: 14″ minimum size, 10/angler, no closed season
Striped Bass: Starting 4/1/20, one fish from 28 inches to less than 38 inches. No closed season 0-3 miles from shore; Delaware River from Trenton to Salem River open 3/1-3/31 and from 6/1-12/31; all other marine waters open 3/1-12/31 except beyond 3 miles which is closed year-round. For Striped Bass Bonus Program go to www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/bonusbas.htm
Summer Flounder: (Set to be approved by NJDEP for 2020) 18′” minimum size, 3/angler, May 22 – Sept 19 (17” minimum size, 3/angler west of COLREGS on Delaware Bay; 16” minimum size, 2/angler at IBSP)
Tautog: 15″ minimum size,January 1 – February 28 (4 fish), April 1 – April 30 (4 fish), Aug 1 – Nov. 15 (1 fish) and November 16- December 31 (5 fish)
Weakfish: 13″ minimum size, 1/angler, no closed season
Winter Flounder: 12″ minimum size, 2/angler, Mar. 1- Dec 31
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NEW YORK
American Shad: Moratorium
Atlantic Sturgeon:Moratorium
Black Sea Bass: 15″ minimum size; 3/angler, June 23 – Aug 31; 7/angler, Sept 1 – Dec 31.
Blue Crab: Minimum shell width (spike to spike tip) 4.5″” hard shell, 3-1/2″ soft shell, 3″ peeler/shedder, 50 creel limit, no closed season; All other crab species: no minimum size, 50 creel limit, no closed season
Bluefish:No minimum size, 3 fish bag limit for recreational / 5 fish for anglers on for-hire boats, no closed season
Cod:Cod: 22″ minimum size, 10/angler, no closed season;
NOTE: Anglers aboard federally permitted party or charter vessels may possess any number of Atlantic cod, consistent with federal rules.
Fluke (Summer Flounder): 19 ” minimum size, 4/angler, May 4 – September 30
Haddock:18″ minimum size, no creel limit, no closed season
Hickory Shad: No minimum size, 5/angler, no closed season
Monkfish (goosefish): 17″ minimum size(11″ tail length,) no creel limit, no closed season
Oyster Toadfish: 10″ minimum size, 3/angler, no closed season
Pollock:19″ minimum size, no creel limit, no closed season
Porgy (Scup): 9″ minimum size, open all year, 30/angler, charter and open boat bag limit expands to 50/angler from September 1 – October 31.
Red Drum: No minimum size, 27″ maximum size, no creel limit, no closed season
Spanish Mackerel: 14″ minimum size, 15/angler, no closed season
Striped Bass:Marine: 28 to 35 inch slot, 1 fish per person, April 15 – December 15
Hudson River north of George Washington Bridge: 1 fish per person 18 to 28 inches, April 1 – November 30
Tautog (Blackfish): 16″ minimum size
LI Sound: April 1-30, 2 fish / October 11 – December 9, 3 fish
NY Bight: April 1-30, 2 fish / October 15 – December 22, 4 fish
Weakfish:16″ minimum size (10″ filleted/12″ dressed,) 1/angler, no closed season
Winter Flounder: 12″ minimum size, 2/angler, April 1 – May 30
Yellowtail Flounder:13″ minimum size, no creel limit, no closed season
RHODE ISLAND
Black Sea Bass: June 24 – August 31, 3-fish bag limit, 15-inch minimum.September 1 – December 31, 7-fish bag limit, 15-inch minimum.
Blue Crab: Minimum shell width (spike to spike tip,) 5″ hard shell, 3-1/2″ soft shell, no creel limit, May 1 – November 30
Bluefish: No closed season or size limit; 3-fish bag limit private boat/shore-bound; 5-fish bag limit onboard for-hire boats.
Cod: No closed season, 21-inch minimum, 10 fish per person.
Haddock: 19″ minimum size, no creel limit, no closed season
Pollock: 19″ minimum size, no creel limit, no closed season
Scup / Porgy: 9-inch minimum length. January 1 – December 31, 30-fish bag limit.
Party boat/for-hire bonus: September 1 -October 31, 50-fish bag limit.
Striped Bass: No closed season, 1 fish, 28 – less than 35 inches.
Summer Flounder/Fluke: May 1 – December 31, 19-inch minimum, 6-fish bag limit.
Tautog / Blackfish: April 1 – May 31, 3-fish bag limit; August 1 – October 14, 3-fish bag limit; October 15 – December 31, 5-fish bag limit; 16-inch minimum length.
Maximum per vessel possession limit is 10 fish regardless of number of anglers onboard.
Weakfish: March 1 – December 31, 16-inch minimum, 1 fish per person.
Winter Flounder (Blackback): No closed season, 12-inch minimum, 2 fish per person. See website for restricted waters.
Yellowtail Flounder: 13″ minimum size, no creel limit, no closed season
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